Hawkeye, I just tried it with one of my tamers that has a smidgeon of camping skill (25.3), and it appeared to work. She made a campfire with some kindling and got the message, "You feel it would take a few moments to secure your camp." Then after a moment or two, got the message, "The camp is now secure." Then she rolled out her bedroll and clicked on it and got the gump asking if she wanted to log out. I clicked Okay and immediately then got the "lost connection" message.

Edited to add: Well, I just tried it in front of the house and then logged on with a character on a different account. Tamer is still standing there.... She didn't get in any fights either, so she's not battled flagged. Hmmmm.

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There is something wrong with logging out in itself. May be you were flagged as in combat when you tried to logout. I know that sometimes I do not instantly logout hidden in my house.

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No, I was not flagged. I don't use a pet. I've been using this a lot, even a few months ago. Since a few weeks it's not working anymore.
Any yes, I also get the "Connection Lost" message like usual, but the character doesn't log out despite. There's something wrong.

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A few months ago, you still could log out lighting a campfire and using a bedroll. Now it doesn't work anymore. Is this intended?

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I know that I could not log out instantly with a pet(s) since the autostable of pets were introduced. I could log out instantly with a bedrol when I had no pets. I have confirmed that about two years ago. I don't know whether this is not changed or this is your case.

Quite awhile back, with O/C, any combat, you could be fighting someone in an Inn, and if you got redlined, just had to log out and poof, you were logged at redlined while in the heat of battle. Same thing with hiding. You could hide right in front of someone.

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Camping is broken I think. I tried this before and had the same problem. If this was an intended change, it really needs to be fixed. It isn't worth skill points to wait 2 minutes for secure camp in order to log out unsafely. If it is an unintended change, it probably relates to some of the other problems I've seen with logging out (inns and houses don't always insta-log me these days on accounts with 7 characters).

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